Powder: a montain adventure exprience center
All her life Camila Vera Falabella has been related to snow. Her parents, fans of snow, took her up the mountain every weekend in the winter, so since she was a little girls snow has been part of her life.
The idea of “Powder” came after her experience at Snowshoe mountain in West Virginia three summers ago, where she went for three months by an student exchange, she liked it so much that she continued this experience year by year, so by the end of summer, when she came back to Chile, the ideas on her mind where very clear.
Camila and Francisco Vera, came up with the idea of creating a company for young students and independent young entrepreneurs. Taking them to the mountains in our country and teaching them various activities, such as skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, etc.
Each weekend a large group of young students and entrepreneurs reunite at the “Cantagallo” and from there, they get a ride to Farellones, where they are received by different instructors in different areas on the mountain, such as mountain experts, business advisors and trained psychologists.
All day long, the students are set to face different activities and experiences, in which they have to learn different skills, such as team work, decision making, leadership, etc.
Catalina Grez, a young student who experience the Powder activities says “It was awesome, I had a lot of fun, I learned new skills that I didn’t even know they exited in me, I would definitely repeat the experience”.
The purpose of the activities are that people can relate with different aspects of the experience such s leadership, or team work and learn from them, people who go to do this activities learn beyond the snowboard or beyond the sky, the importance of this is to learn new aspects of yourself, and also, learn new aspects of the people who work with you day by day.
Now, Camila and Francisco are very happy with the results, each weekend a group of approximately 20 people go up to the mountain and do the different activities, the critics have been very positive and they hope to continue with this business.
The next step is to expand the experience to summer activities in the same place as in winter so it just won’t be a seasonal company and in that way, profit from summer activities too, such as trekking, bicycle rides, fly-fishing, horse riding, etc.
Hopefully we will hear mor about this company and about the achieves that they are gaining.
